The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
No Sessions Canadian Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian members! There are no club sessions today.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Change
Hosted by Laura Chance & Skipper Chong Warson
A curious group exploring the complexities of change and developing frameworks for effectively creating, embracing, or managing it across various scales and domains.
2 PM ET Ethics Open Mic
Hosted by Brenda Ray & Vladimira Girginova
A thoughtful group focused on exploring the ethical implications of sensemaking work and addressing challenging questions without fear of the unknown.
1 PM ET Shitty Maps DoJoe
Hosted by Joe Elmendorf
A monthly practice session for getting reps making shitty maps alongside others, not to produce anything that matters, but to build the muscle.
2 PM ET Systems Lab
Hosted by Holly Schroeder
A collaborative workshop for real-life problem solving, exploring practical and sustainable systems that reduce everyday friction.
2 PM ET Collaborative Sensemaking
Hosted by Matt Arnold
Explore how groups make meaning together when the work is ambiguous, complex, or changing quickly, and the structures that help them move forward without perfect clarity.
What’s going on?
Week of October 13, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week we put pen to paper, worked on our rituals, picked some friendly fights, and counted the cost of convenience. The Analog Leap: Sketching to Expand Your Sensemaking started the week by asking members to map their own street and a familiar journey from memory, to see how well we actually notice the places we move through every day. Reps and Rituals asked why the energy from a great Friday workshop is gone by Monday, and how small practices repeated with meaning can become rituals that hold a team together. Making Sense of Other Humans dug into Priya Parker’s idea of “healthy heat,” and members practiced telling it apart from unhealthy peace and unhealthy conflict. Making Sense of Money closed the week with a simple trade-off: where do you spend money to save time, and where do you spend time to save money?
Themes from last week:
- Plan for Monday, not Friday
- Heat needs a foundation
- Directions depend on who’s asking
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
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